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with a limited muxber of people. We believe the direction of the
station is of high caliber, but not all the station effort is |
carefully directed at priority targets. Under current personne]
ceilings, there is little hope of increasing the manpover avail-

able for this eritical effort. Tims, both Headquarters and the
station met carefully place emphasis on assignment of priorities

and upon selective execution of the activities to meet those
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3. The Mexico City Station approaches the classic type station

in opportunities and in operations. It has high-level liaison
operations, unilateral operations, joint operations with the host
government, end Soviet, Satellite, Cuban, and indigenous Communist
- Party operations. Tt fas local collaborative liaison with other |
U.5. agencies: th’ State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service and the military.
To accomplish this wide range of tasks, the station an, cnpenised

into the Soviet Branch, Cuban Branch, Satellite Branch,

Action Branch, Coumunist Party Branch, and an operational catch-all
Which is called the “Operational Support Branch." This latter
branch is heeded by a senior operations officer who has tvo assiat~
ents, but the branch in reality is an extension of the chief of
station's personal clandestine capabilities, giving force and .

effect to that facet of the chief of station's personality as ean
operator. The deputy chief of station, in afdition to his edmin-
istrative duties, also personally handles the operations of three
projects. ; -

6. Mexico City is the only direct air Link which Cuba has
with the Western Hemisphere. It is the major transit point for
ell air travel to and from Guba. Approximately 150 persons per
week travel each vay to anf from Havana via Mexico City. This
fact plays a prime role shay

on Cuban activities in thé-pas
and non-Cub Mexico City and Havana.

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so pogaety: te: amt t ‘from:the- femmle operations officer vho ‘hae
recently deen transferred to LILI control. It is poseiblePhat.
j this operation will be transferred to a. covert: action Project,
Where fous improvesent ie expected. _. “

hl. he station hes a unilat: eral physical. surveillance team,
‘five of whom have been on the team for more than three years.
‘only one Case of trouble has hewn up in this project. One agent ,
had uinated deceuse he talked too mich ané tried to black-
Gee officer. The use of the polygraph hes been most = *
in “control of this team, which has been generally: effec

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ha. - the station 1s {ty committed in the technical field
with a large sudio operation (run Joint “with the Mexican Govern-’ a4
(LIBUVOY), os, well as exilo operation (uireat). 24
Po ee fon has been imag ive in. approaches to ‘problems
i willing to examine and experizent vith the unusual. Mi eceanle of
this ia the ions link between the stetion/ and we prinel« 24
yal agent of: Which will be discussed. later.

(43. The LXENVOY operation, | ‘Beeyiouely, meutiones in Sonnection
| with Soviet operations, resulted: fros [an . ‘eix years’ 0 24
from President Lopes Mateos] After considerable discussions, the
operation vas approved, provid Mextean Government vould in- 2g, ad
clude Soviet. and fatellite targets, ani such other targets

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Uatted States. ‘project is manned ty [selected Mexican Army 2 .
ave carefully screened end paid high incentive wages,

_ off Fessioe ister wulneredility ‘te bribery./ er privileges add to

| high esprit de corps essential to on operet ion. The unit

is managed by © coreer agent ho treneaite the {eke regularity se

i the atation by clandestine means. This project been fruitful

; in intelligence reports and has been of value in operational Leas
a4 and in/CE/Ox| intorsstion. | Tee The project also has a visual surveil-
lance and & photo-surveillance capability. It-wes thie project

which provided data on the actions of Lea Harvey Onvald in his

famous visit. eg Maxico Gity.

= — yh—opvtounly, ‘the station cannot’ be content to have the: a
4S fexfoen Government knowledgeable of a1) ite anti-conmmnist cperé- a
.; fetone. Therefore, the station bas contimed | ite untleteral audio |}

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information from S208 and CS reports; and,

d. Use the cable channel only for reports that
are periahable or are of special intelligeme interest.

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- ere aseisting in sone. reduction of the personality: “files. .

Regiatry also handles the pouching. This tesk ie also the lergeut

in the WH Division, particularly in lateral pouching. On one occa-

sion, at Headg ere’ request, Mexico City handled the lateral .
; stations and bases of one document.

ae Gaibing provi onnel assigned to the Registry. 1

nel problems in the Registry are many and diversified.

heer the: Limited mmber o

. station. pointing out. to him a conscientious

all nexbers of the station to reduce the workload in the Registry i.
In this connection, we suggested that % individual
cept the responsibility for periodic cleaning of :

little time off, including
. We feel that one of the _
be re-evaluated for possible upgrat-
Geputy chief of Registry.

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[ Division, request the Director of
te conduct « review of the finetion of
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